Turning 50 / Illustrated Journal (Book 1)

During the year before I turned 50, I did a "50 Before 50" project. In part, it involved a list of 50 very carefully thought-out and selected things to do and an illustrated journal in which I tracked the "doing" of those things and recorded the year. As part of the illustrated documentation, I also drew a self-portrait each week. The flip-through in this video is journal 1 from the year. (I continued the weekly self-portraits for a second year after this one and am now starting year 3. The illustrated journal process grew into the #illustrateyourweek project that I do and lead. I have offered hundreds of prompts over the last year for people keeping illustrated journals.

00:00 Intro
00:55 Moleskine Art Sketchbook
00:17 What was the goal?
01:45 Flip-through
03:00 I bought a ukulele
04:15 Grid-format pages
05:15 Needing a cheerleader!
06:37 30 Inks in 30 Days
08:04 Filling circles
09:00 Blues
09:49 October spread (Inktober / Inktobeva)
11:30 More Inktobeva
11:55 Tracking Gilmore Girls
13: 20 Self-portraits
15:15 Last page
16:22 My fingerless mitts
16:55 Listen to the podcast

Flip-through of book 2 in this series:    • Illustrated Journal Vol 2 of 50 Befor...  

The journal I used for this project is the Moleskine Art Sketchbook, A4 (they also make an A3, which I haven't tried - it's very expensive). You can find the A4 in various colors at Amazon. The paper takes fountain color very well. Alcohol markers do bleed through. The paper is off-white. But, by far, it has been the best sketchbook I've ever used for this kind of illustrated journal work.
⭐ Moleskine Art Sketchbook, Hard Cover, A4 (8.25" x 11.75") https://amzn.to/3jiTTHe
⭐ Moleskine Art Sketchbook, Hard Cover, A3 (11.75" x 16.5") https://amzn.to/3x1dCzt
⭐ Atrika Note Sketchbook https://amzn.to/3A1SVoK (New sketchbook I am going to try to see if the paper works as well; white pages - 8x8)
⭐ Atrika Note Sketchbook https://amzn.to/3jmlWWn (If the 8x8 takes ink well, the 10x10 is one I will try)

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Note: The goal of sharing this is not that you read every word of my journal. Our journals, even when heavily illustrated, are personal. I hope you appreciate the glimpse at the journal, a look inside, and the "look" of the illustrated pages.

Music: Courtesy of bensound.com

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